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Author: jennlouisew@gmail.com (Jennifer Wadsworth)

Sounds like England’s ready for its own “Black Hole.” A 52-year-old guy in a Raiders T-shirt stepped off a plane at the Manchester Airport last week, denuded himself and proceeded to get Tasered by local authorities. The Manchester Evening news was all over the story, which went global, in part, because it was accompanied by …

When Therese Shechter set out to film a documentary about female sexuality, she wanted to focus on slut-shaming. But as she interviewed more sources she realized that shame is a double-edged sword and shifted the theme to the society’s obsession with virginity. “How to Lose Your Virginity,” the just-released film by Women Make Movies, is …

Fox News has deemed the federal shutdown merely a “slimdown.” Though the network is not using the term on-air, it’s all over its website. Exhibit A: Compare that to, say, the LA Times and every other major news outlet: Technically, Fox is right. The government’s still chugging along, having relieved itself of only deemed-as-such “non-essential” …

The way Marina Shifrin quit her job has launched an avalanche of offers from others who want to hire her and garnered about 5.5 million YouTube views in the process. Shifrin, who worked at Next Media Animation until this past weekend, posted an online video in which she boogies around her office alone at 4:30 …

Jonas Pierre of Brooklyn, N.Y., was forced to relive a horrible moment when his son’s school started calling to ask about the youth’s terrible attendance record. The thoughtless calls picked at a fresh wound. Jean Fritz Pierre, 16, had drowned last June on a school field trip to Bear Mountain State Park, where he’d gone …

The pivotal moment in last Sunday’s penultimate “Breaking Bad” episode came when Walt saw his two ex-colleagues on TV, denouncing his contributions to their company’s research. We saw our protagonist transform from willing surrender to the egomaniacal Heisenberg alter ego, bent on revenge. That twist came thanks to one of the show’s biggest fans, 16-year-old …

Afraid students would learn tolerance (God forbid!) by visiting an Islamic mosque, a squeaky wheel stepdad complained to administrators at Henderson High School in Hendersonville, Tenn., prompting them to cancel all religious field trips. Mike Conner worried that his stepdaughter would learn a little too much about Islam during a 36-week world studies course. When …

The 65th annual Emmys delivered a string of stunning upsets (Jeff Daniels over Brian Cranston? Really?!), inexplicable dance numbers and breathless acceptance speeches. It also dedicated an unprecedented chunk of airtime to pay tribute to five late TV talents, not all of which were well-received. “The Sopranos’” James Gandolfini, “All in the Family’s” Jean Stapleton, …

America needs more home-schoolers, ladies. Yeah, you probably have a day job and can’t afford to take the time off to properly educate your offspring at home. But that’s just an excuse, you wimp. Even a woman working two jobs and living at a homeless shelter could find time to teach her child. Well, according …

In the 1977 grand jury transcript of the Roman Polanski rape case, the director’s victim repeatedly describes her terror. Several times during 13-year-old Samantha Geimer’s account, she tells the interrogator she was afraid. She kept telling Polanski no – in fact for several pages the word punctuates her retelling. During the actual assault, she says, …

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